On May 17-23 2010, the leading European developers of language resources and technologies gathered in Valletta, the capital of Malta, to share their knowledge and latest discoveries in the field of language resources, machine translation and voice technology. It happened of researchers and professionals in the middle of the popular conference LREC 2010 (the International Conference on language resources and Evaluation) and the European Union's financial support to projects/exhibitions dating event (ECU projects village).

The president of ELRA (European Language Resources Association), Stelios Piperidis, set out the META-SHARE initiative vision of an exchange platform of open, integrated and interoperable language resources and tools. Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit, European Commission Information Society and Media Directorate E digital content & Cognitive systems) highlighted the language technology and resource development prospects in Europe. The leader of Tilde's Language system innovations, Inguna Skadiņa, says that "LREC is one of the most visited conferences (this year it had more than 1000 participants), so it is not only a great opportunity to learn about current events and the latest advances in language technologies, but also a wonderful opportunity to exchange ideas and meet face to face the leading industry professionals.  A pleasant surprise was Roberto Cencioni's interest in the implementation progress of the projects managed by Tilde. But in seminar on comparable corpora we learned that also one of the leading specialists in this field, Pascale Fung, plays with ideas similar to our ACCURAT project."

Company tilde exhibition ECU projects village presented small language for Windows 7 RC (release candidate) development projects and ACCURAT you LetsMT!, which are the leading partner. The main objective of the ACCURAT project is to study the methods and techniques that can be used to prevent one of the main machine translation (MT) problems — the lack of linguistic resources in small languages and specific areas. While the project LetsMT! aims at creating a self-service machine platform on the Internet.

(Image of Roberto Cencion together with Andrei Vasilyev)

The leading partner of EuroTermBank, Tilde has published a significant new terminology resource in EuroTermBank.com – Microsoft Public Terminology Collection in cooperation with Microsoft Language Excellence team within the framework of the Language Shore project. Now Microsoft Terminology data has become much closer to the users of EuroTermBank.com – translators, terminologists, students, IT professionals who use the resources of EuroTermBank Terminology and its Add-in tools in their everyday work. Microsoft Terminology for the Baltic languages – Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian – was published in EuroTermBank.com on 15 December 2009, and other EuroTermBank languages to be added in early 2010. By sharing the terminology resources, Microsoft ensures the broader use of new IT terminology in the smaller languages where spread and acceptance of localized IT terms is still in progress.

Project The Interactive Electronic Training Course of Latvian Language for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Addition for Promoting Education Accessibility implemented by AS Datorzinību Centrs in cooperation with the National Agency for Latvian Language Training and Tilde company within the framework of the European Refugee Fund program of the Office of Citizenship and Migration of Latvia has received the European Language Label in language learning 2009.

Tilde provides intelligent language technologies for the languages of the Baltic countries that are equivalent to the support available for the world’s major languages, using a combination of statistical and knowledge driven approaches. Tilde’s experience resulted in excellence covering four main areas:  

• Proofing tools
• Translation tools
• Terminology services
• Speech technologies
• Information search and retrieval

As a developer of translation technologies, Tilde offers a wide range of translation applications including machine translation, electronic dictionaries between the Baltic languages and widely used European languages, and a comprehension assistant as a tool for reading texts in foreign languages and machine translation solutions.

Try our new machine translation tool Tilde Translator (Beta version) which provides translation from English into Latvian. Link to the web site: http://translate.tilde.com

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More than 10 years of experience and expert knowledge in IT and telecom allow Tilde to lead the Baltic localization market with uncompromising quality and a strong commitment to client needs.  Tilde offers translation into the main languages spoken in the Baltics – Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian and Russian. Offices in all Baltic capitals and in-house staff offer quality localization services that are delivered on time.

We provide the following services:

• software and help localization
• technical translation
• adaptation of marketing materials
• editing and proofreading
• terminology development
• validation of other agency translations
• DTP and layout
• and other services you might require.

 All our translations undergo internal linguistic and terminological validation and technical verification to deliver the best quality.

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Easy and centralized access to professional terminology resources is crucial for workers of the language industry – translators, editors, linguists, and terminologists, alongside with industry experts, business people, scholars, students and other users. In cooperation with the international EuroTermBank Consortium, Tilde hosts and develops EuroTermBank, a multilingual terminology portal that enables searching within approximately 600,000 terminology entries containing over 1.5 million terms in various languages, coming from 100 terminology collections (overall, more than 25 languages are involved).

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